NCRAW Podcast

Jeremy Sharp is a small business owner from Dahlonega Georgia who recently moved to North Carolina to take a job with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition as an Out Reach Worker. Jeremy currently sits on the board of Directors for Georgia Overdose Prevention and has served on the BOD for Students for Sensible Drug Policy. In 2014, Jeremy helped develop and pass Georgia's 911 Good Samaritan Policy. As a student at the University of North Georgia, Jeremy wrote his school's medical amnesty policy and worked with the Medical Association of Georgia to help equip all 32 state university police departments with Naloxone. A drug used to reverse opioid induced overdose.

Karen Hardy is a a 54 year old woman, mother of 2 bio children and 2 step children.  Our blended families have addiction all throughout including parents, siblings, and child(ren).  She is a mental health and addiction counselor who also worked in the CT prison system for 20 years where she earned her addictions certification and worked in a treatment program.  Her son is currently 18 months in recovery from heroin addiction.  She is embarking on an overdose awareness hike beginning April 1 with her husband Stephen; we both lost siblings to overdoses.  1 was intentional and 1 was due to interactions of MH meds.

Bo joined us to discuss social media influence and how this feeds addiction and our epidemic of loneliness, masculinity and substance use, psychotherapy, accelerated resolution therapy, neuroscience of mindfulness and DBT skills and much more!

We sat down with Mike to discuss life in long-term recovery, working in the field, maintaining a sense of humor in recovery, fitness and nutrition, and other random recovery related topics. 

Chris Campau, Director of Scholastic Recovery for Addiction Professionals of North Carolina joined us to discuss the state of collegiate recovery and shared a little of his personal story. 

Ricky & Julie Johnson join us on the podcast to discuss the veteran community, incarceration and adapting with felony convictions, recovery transitioning, suicide, and accountability with compassion. 

Shannon joined us to discuss some of the basic design and published results surrounding MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD as well as the MDMA Therapy Training Program and how to become an MDMA therapist plus plans for Expanded Access.

Ginger returns to discuss transparency and myths relating to sustaining long-term recovery.

This episode features an in-depth discussion about the upcoming cannabis feasibility study taking place in Cherokee, NC, cannabis perspectives, the opioid/drug epidemic, and mental health issues.